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As Donald Trump and the Republican Party fight to pass his âbig, beautiful billâ to cut taxes for the wealthy and gut federal spending for key federal agencies and social support programs, a new podcast miniseries from The Lever is pulling back the curtain on how Republicans became the face of the anti-tax movement.
David Sirota, the founder and editor-in-chief of The Lever and a former speechwriter and senior adviser to Bernie Sanders, joins Mehdi to discuss the podcast, âTax Revoltâ, and the surprising state where the movement took off in the 1970s: California.
Sirota tells Mehdi that while âDemocrats were the Santa Claus of spending programs,â Republicans realized they could be âthe Santa Claus of tax cuts.â
But as Sirota explains, Republican voters are beginning to sour on the idea of tax cuts as more people have learned that while this âSanta Clausâ provides gifts âto the very richest,â those benefits arenât trickling down to those who need them most.
âWeâre living through a time where you can see every day the actual real-world effects of prioritizing tax cuts over a government that can accomplish the most basic necessities that we need it to accomplish,â Sirota tells Mehdi.
You can click here to listen to The Leverâs new podcast miniseries, âTax Revoltâ, which is available wherever you get your podcasts.
Paid subscribers can watch the full interview above to hear Mehdi and Sirota discuss the parts of Donald Trumpâs playbook that trace back to the early days of the tax revolt, the lasting impacts of a California ballot measure that has made it nearly impossible to raise taxes in the state, and whether AOC is the heir to Bernie Sandersâ movement.
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It doesnât take much under Trumpâs authoritarian system of governance for anyone to find themselves in the crosshairs of one agency or the other. For attorney Clay Jackson, it was the simple act of telling an immigrant family their rights and offering to find them pro bono counsel.
âI'm licensed in three states. Every one of those states has a rule that says lawyers have an obligation to provide pro bono assistance to people in their community, I thought it was that simple.â Sadly for Jackson, it was not.
Following his meeting with a family, Jackson received a visit from state agents who refused to identify themselves, and then accused him of obstructing an immigration investigation. When Jackson went public with the story, he was immediately fired.
âI didn't think that doing something like this would cost me my job,â he says, âWhen I see big white shoe law firms, quote, âmake a dealâ with a presidential administration that's pretty clear in its intent to test every single constitutional boundary that exists, it would be impossible for me as an attorney to tell a client that their interests are represented to the fullest extent.â
Watch the full interview above to hear Jacksonâs account of how he thinks he was targeted, the status of the family he was helping, and whether this was a high-level attempt at intimidating lawyers who help immigrants under threat of deportation.
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Itâs been over a month since shocking footage emerged of masked ICE agents arresting Tufts Doctoral Student RĂŒmeysa ĂztĂŒrk, after her visa was terminated simply for co-authoring an op-ed in the student newspaper calling for the university to divest in Israel.
Since then, RĂŒmeysa has been confined to an ICE detention center in Louisiana, where her US Representative, Ayanna Pressley, met with her late last month.
In this powerful interview for âMehdi Unfiltered,â Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley tells Mehdi about the âharrowingâ conditions RĂŒmeysa has been facing in her detention center â which Pressley says, âhas a long documented history of human rights violations and abuses.â
âShe suffered several very severe asthma attacks while there, received inadequate medical care. There has been no religious accommodation, in fact, not only on a dietary aspect, but when it comes to a space to pray, a Quran. Her hijab was removed without her consent by one of the nurses,â Pressley tells Mehdi.
Pressley emphasizes to Mehdi how the Trump administration has completely ignored due process, and explains just how dire the implications of RĂŒmeysaâs case are for the country.
âThis is laying the ground foundationally and will be a threat to everyone. This means that this could be you tomorrow for suffering a miscarriage, because in Trump's America, that's been criminalized. This means this could be you tomorrow for reading a banned book,â Pressley says. âWith this dictator in chief, simply because you have a dissenting opinion from his worldview, you could find yourself incarcerated.â
During the second half of the interview, Mehdi asks Pressley about President Donald Trumpâs first 100 days of his second term, as well as the state of the Democratic party.
âI do not believe, Mehdi, that this is about weathering the next four years. I believe this will dictate the next 100,â Pressley says to Mehdi.
Paid subscribers can watch the full 26 minutes of this engaging interview with Pressley, to hear her discuss Trump and Republicansâ plans to potentially cut Medicaid, reporting that Democrats were told to stand down on visiting wrongly deported legal resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and Congresswoman AOCâs decision to pass on seeking a leadership position in the House.
Free subscribers can watch the first 5 minutes of the interview. This is a conversation you wonât want to miss, with Pressley completely unbarred in her answers. Consider upgrading to a paid membership to watch it in full.
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Mehdi speaks to BAFTA-winning, Oscar-nominated Palestinian Director Farah Nabulsi about her latest film, 'The Teacher,' which centers around the struggle of Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank through the lens of a school teacher there.
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In this segment of Mehdi Unfiltered, Lindsey Boylan, former Cuomo aide who blew the whistle on his sexual misconduct, speaks to Mehdi about the former New York governorâs mayoral bid.
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In this weekâs episode of Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by The Atlantic's Derek Thompson to discuss his new book with Ezra Klein, 'Abundance,' and the criticism it's received from progressives.
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In this segment of Mehdi Unfiltered, free speech advocate Nico Perrino talks to Mehdi about the Trump administrationâs attacks on student protestors and the media, and the rightâs free-speech hypocrisy.
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In this weekâs episode of Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by MSNBC host Chris Hayes to discuss his new book, âThe Sirenâs Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource.â
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In this weekâs episode of Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by Iranian-American relations expert Trita Parsi to discuss the possibility of a US-Israel-backed war with Iran, and the threat of it all going nuclear.
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After enduring almost three months of the Trump-Musk agenda, Democrats finally gained a victory last week, after voters elected Democratic-backed judge Susan Crawford, defeating billionaire Elon Muskâs attempt to flip the court to conservative control.
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Ten British nationals are now facing allegations of war crimes over their service in the Israeli military and its war on Gaza. To respond to this groundbreaking news, Mehdi interviews one of the lawyers behind this report: renowned human rights barrister Michael Mansfield KC.
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Mehdi was in New York this past week, and he was joined in the studio for a fascinating and wide-ranging conversation by none other than Molly Jong-Fast, acclaimed author, host of the âFast Politicsâ podcast, and a special correspondent for Vanity Fair.
You might find this to be a cathartic conversation as Mehdi and Molly unleash on the idiocy of the Trump tariffs - and the Trump administration in general. The two of them also address the deficiencies in the modern, cautious, elderly Democratic Party.
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The United States Constitution was written nearly 240 years ago, laying the foundations for an independent, successful, democratic country. But, like most of the nationâs laws, it was written by and for wealthy white men. To put it simply, the US legal system today feels, in some ways, both outdated and discriminatory â especially when itâs either under attack or weaponized by Donald Trump. Itâs this exact issue that Elie Mystal, lawyer, author, and justice correspondent at The Nation magazine, tackles in his new book, Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America. Mehdi speaks with Mystal about US democracy, voter suppression, and the Trump administration.
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In this segment of Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi interviews the lawyer for a Georgetown scholar who is facing deportation for his pro-Palestine views.
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With the sun setting over Gazaâs skyline and warplanes flying overhead, trauma surgeon Dr. Feroze Sidhwa and orthopedic surgeon Dr. Mark Perlmutter huddle in front of their webcam at Nasser Hospital in the south of Gaza to describe some of the horrors they have seen over the last week.
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In this segment of Mehdi Unfiltered, culture commentator Taylor Lorenz talks about the âMisogyny Slop Ecosystemâ and how Republican influencers are using pop culture to funnel women into the right-wing pipeline.
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In this weekâs episode of Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by New York Times business investigations editor David Enrich to discuss his new book, âMurder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful.â
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Trump is once again trying to reassert himself as the law and order president. During his recent joint address to Congress, the president called for a mandatory death penalty for anyone who kills a police officer. This of course comes less than two months after Trump himself pardoned more than 1,500 Jan. 6 rioters, including over 300 who pleaded guilty to either assaulting or obstructing law enforcement.
One of those law enforcement officers who was assaulted on Jan. 6 was former Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell, who tells Mehdi that he âhad to laughâ last week when Trump tried to claim heâs on the side of law enforcement. Sgt. Gonell tells Mehdi that he was assaulted by more than 40 rioters that day and had to undergo two surgeries as a result. When asked what his reaction was when Trump pardoned those rioters on his first day back in office, Gonell told Mehdi it was like a âstab in the heart.â
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Elon Musk gets called a lot of names by a lot of people, but not many elected officials find the courage to call him a âdickâ without fear of the DOGE bros coming for them, unless youâre Senator Tina Smith that is, the Democrat from Minnesota who sat down for a wide-ranging interview with Mehdi in her office on Capitol Hill.
The senatorâs harsh words are not exclusively reserved for Musk and Trump though, as the Minnesota senator is just as unfiltered in her criticisms of the Democratic Party to which she belongs, a party that she describes today as being âtoo cautious.â
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In this weekâs episode of Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by Democratic Rep. Jim Himes to discuss his censure vote for Rep. Al Green, the detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, and the âpro-fascist instinctsâ of Elon Musk.
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